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September is turning out to be a significant month for Amazon on the international expansion front. The e-commerce giant announced the availability of its Kindle Unlimited subscription service in India Wednesday, just days after it also...

Mogul receives fewer stock awards after company plunges to $149m loss, as it is revealed he met Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon in New York in June Rupert Murdoch took a 40% pay cut for the year ending 30 June as his total...

The PlayStation 4 is getting a substantial update that will introduce a number of new features, and Sony is trying them out today with a beta test. PS4’s system firmware version 3 (officially 3.00) is coming in the near future, and...

News Media Association calls on government to implement 10 changes to corporation’s objectives and governance in submission to green paper UK national and regional newspaper publishers have called for the BBC’s digital news operation to...

A new commercial from TBWA\Chiat\Day for Gatorade features tennis star Serena Williams as a young girl, when a reporter asked her what player she'd most like to emulate as an adult. After an emotional montage of highlights from her...

Programmatic marketers from ad techs From agency marketers to brands, and every tech player in between, there are a lot of moving parts when it comes to executing a successful programmatic campaign. At the end of the day, it is the...

StickyADS.tv – the leading European programmatic video private exchange software provider – today announces a reinvention of the programmatic video landscape with the launch of its disruptive promotional tool for publishers,...

The Russian DTH platform NTV-Plus has agreed to pay nearly R6 billion (€81.54 million) to the country’s premier football league for the right to show matches from its championship for the next three seasons. Read the story »

Agency luminaries gathered for Adweek’s second annual Watch Awards in New York, and Michael Kassan hosted the media world for a summer cocktail fete in East Hampton. Here's a look at the week's top events.

Koza-Ipek Media group raided by police, with six people held and warrant issued for absent chief executive, as part of investigation into Fethullah Gulen Turkish police have raided the Ankara-based offices of a media group critical of...

No industry in the world enjoys self-flagellation quite as much as the advertising industry. We criticize the work we create. We condemn the environments in which we create it. We denounce the same award shows whose recognition we covet....

Time spent on sites including Facebook, Gawker Media and Reddit account for 17% of all time people in the UK spend online Social media has overtaken entertainment as the UK’s favourite activity online, accounting for almost a fifth of...

With ever more material out there, how do viewers find what’s good? How do you get people to keep paying for what they watch instead of getting it from torrent sites and/or blocking ads? And what will and won’t constitute...

Dutch consumers are now devoting on average over 60% of their total viewing time to other ways of watching video, according to the latest version of the Dutch Consumer Video Behaviour report from Telecompaper. Read the story »

Our roundup of the day’s media stories, including Jeremy Corbyn proposes more help for the arts and vows to defend BBC If you are viewing this on the web and would like to get our email every morning, please click here . If you’re using...

Even amid the explosion of digital marketing technologies over the past few years, marketers keep returning to email. The reason is clear -- for the 10th consecutive year, email is the highest ROI-generating channel for marketers. For...

This week, the Adweek staff is highlighting sleek gifts for your inner designer. Brew a beaker of cold brew, become a Lego architect, and then throw on a designer shirt that measures how many calories you burn. Take a look:

Several years ago, I was invited to give my first public speech, and I made the mistake of saying yes. I was terrified: as a student, my heart used to race at the mere thought of raising my hand in class. For weeks beforehand, I had...

Nicolas Kayser-Bril : Recent pressures on journalism across Europe by the judiciary threaten to set the industry back a decade — String of rulings bodes ill for the future of journalism in Europe — ...

“ CBS has a script deal in place for a drama series, inspired by the life of Gloria Allred,” reports Variety. The series is the brainchild of Deborah Schoeneman, who told Variety, “When I was finished working on the last...

In potentially the final race for Triple Crown winner American Pharoah, the Travers Stakes scored its largest audience in two decades. Coverage of the Breeders Cup Challenge Travers Stakes earned 2.0 million viewers on NBC Saturday...

NEW YORK, Sept. 2, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Americord Registry, a private cord blood, cord tissue, and placenta tissue banking company, announced today that is has earned the position of 286 on the 2015 Inc. 500. Logo -...

Jimmy Fallon took a break from lip syncing with stars or playing word games to tackle a serious topic on Tuesday when he invited one of the heroes from last month’s Amsterdam train shooting onto “The Tonight Show.”...

eMarketer says 2015 will be "a benchmark year" for mobile ad spending in the U.S., as it surpasses desktop spending for the first time. According to eMarketer, mobile will account for 51.9% of total digital spending. eMarketer projects...

As we approach yet another Radio Show (Atlanta 9/30-10/1), despite what appears to be universal agreement that it needs to be fixed, broadcasters are still waiting for the FCC to follow through with its plan to revitalize the AM radio...

BEIJING, Sept. 1, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- On August 26, 2015, the China Advertising Technology Conference hosted by Yoyi Digital and co-organized by iResearch was held in Beijing at the Grand Millennium Hotel. During the event, a guest...

Navigating the ever-changing retail industry. We help high-profile middle-market companies better adapt and advance with our in-depth knowledge. Experience the power of being understood. Advertising Agency: Luquire George Andrews Inc,...

NEW YORK, Sept. 1, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Over the last few years, the Global Hyperspectral Imaging Market has witnessed an increasing adoption of HSI technologies in ophthalmology, surface tissue and mucosal membrane analysis,...

News UK Operation Elveden Journalists on trial Former Sun managing editor Graham Dudman has left the paper four months after he was acquitted of illegally paying public officials for stories. He was one of 22 Sun journalists charged with...

“Dancing With the Stars” Season 21 has another official cast member, and they don’t get much more colorful than Gary Busey . The outrageous actor who is infamous for his scary-looking mugshot appeared on fellow ABC...

Local government often has more real-world impact on the everyday lives of citizens than other levels of government. Police departments, libraries and schools all fall under local government jurisdiction, and for homeowners, local...

One week from Wednesday, Pandora will celebrate its 10th anniversary. The company will thank listeners with what it's calling "Listener Love Day," a full day of music with no commercials. Founder Tim Westergren says, "Listener Love Day...

CBS will live-stream its coverage of two regular-season National Football League games for the first time this season, expanding its digital broadcast of football as more viewers avail themselves of mobile screens.

DTS is a public company (Nasdaq:DTSI) that was founded in 1990 by entrepreneur/scientist Terry Beard and funded by Universal City Studios, Inc. and other investors in 1993, DTS introduced its master-quality sound with the release of...

Knight Foundation launched the Tech for Engagement initiative in 2010 to experiment with new civic technologies and tools that spur citizen engagement, improve cities and make government more effective. Knight has invested over $25...

Amazon Prime has added the ability to download streaming video titles to its subscriber package. The function, which was previously available exclusively on the Kindle Fire tablet, is now available on Android and iOS devices with the...

After spending years in development limbo, Disney’s adaptation of a popular fantasy novel series “may have found new life,” reports Variety. The movie would be based on the “Artemis Fowl” novels by Eoin Colfer. Says Variety, “Kenneth...

MIAMI, Sept. 2, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Communicator, author and international lecturer Ismael Cala, and Atlantis University in the United States are announcing the opening of the Centro Academico de Liderazgo de las Americas (C.A.L.A....

Ten months ago, when the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation asked me to track down the best ideas I could find about what journalism education should be and do in 2025, we agreed on a few basic rules of engagement: This was not a...

Video: Landing Corporate Sponsorships for Giving Days . Knight Foundation recently hosted a webinar on Landing Corporate Sponsorships for Giving Days, a session targeted to the many foundations that organize these campaigns and part of...

“It’s been a while since I directed a musical,” said Carrie Morris, director of Carrie Morris Arts Production (CMAP). “I forgot how much work it is.” CMAP, a Knight Arts Challenge Detroit winner , is one of...

Keeping up with the upcoming NFL season will be a little bit easier thanks to CBS. The network will live stream two regular season NFL games for the first time this season, as well as four playoff games and the Super Bowl. The post CBS...

Your new customer, the one you worked so hard to sell, the one that loved their commercial, the one you were so proud of, just called and cancelled their advertising. You sit there stunned, speechless, wondering what just happened. Why...

Trevor Noah’s “Daily Show” squad still isn’t quite used to the new guy — but they’re trying. Members of The Best F#@king News Team Ever brought some South African sports references to the break room in...

Ryan Wild has is the new FM Operations Manager at NRG's Omaha cluster (KQKQ, KOPW, and KOOO). Wild joins NRG after six years in dual posts as Programming/Operations Manager for Mile High Stations Trust's Hot AC and Classic Rock combo...

NEW YORK, Sept. 1, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- The report has analyzed the global melamine formaldehdye market and market segmentation has been done on the basis of application and region. The market data has been provided in terms of volume...

NEW YORK, Sept. 1, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- This report estimates the downhole tools market in terms of value in $million. This has been broken down into application, tool-type, and region and has been further split into countries. The...

NEW YORK, Sept. 1, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- The global recloser market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 3.9% from 2014 to 2019. The most important drivers for the growth of this market are the rising need to reduce customer outage cost and...